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Read the terrific reviews Fall of Rome has gotten for online
multiplayer games from many popular sources. Click on the magazine link
to read the entire review. They keep pouring in!
The most recent is from Wargamer. William Trotter has written strategy game and
war game reviews for PC Gamer and Wargamer for more than 20 years. He is also an
excellent novelist with fourteen books written. Find him at
www.trotterbooks.com
as well as at Wargamer.
He is known as a particularly critical reviewer. A few
of his impressions from his Fall of Rome review are shown first, below:
Fall of Rome is hands-down one of the top-rated online strategy games to emerge in many a year. It’s incredibly rich, colorful, and nuanced; addictive as crank, and designed with a care and attention to detail that is rare in any gaming genre.
I trust that what I have described, though, is sufficient to give you a solid overview of how robust and finely detailed Fall of Rome truly is, both in its political-economic-diplomatic structure and in its blood-and-thunder combat elements.
Just as the political/diplomatic model in Fall of Rome is one of surprising sophistication, the military structuring in this online war game is detailed enough to please all but the pickiest grognard.
The game takes a quantum leap in vigor, complexity, and sheer skull-duggery as, one by one, the contending kings consolidate their rule over their starting regions.
So, clearly, the optimum route to victory is a dual path comprising diplomacy and political skills on the one hand, and the threat or actual deployment of first-rate troops on the other. Silver-tongued diplomats and grizzled Centurions are your two major assets.
In sum, I give Fall of Rome my heartiest recommendation; it really is Something Special.
"Every battle
unfolds in story form and these
read like the best battle
scenes you'd find in any fantasy
novel."
"All in all,
Fall
of Rome is a game for
the consummate online multiplayer games player, the one
who wants deep gameplay, a good
story, and a great online multiplayer games community."
"I highly
recommend this game."
"The rich
political system in Fall
of Rome makes these online multiplayer games
so much more than a simple movement
of armies into battle.
The triple colossi of economic,
politics,
and combat in these strategy games
is further enlivened by other
design features, most notably
agents
and artifacts."
"You learn
the results of battles
in this online rpg through well-organized, well-written
narratives that convey the flavor
of the fight and provide clues
of what you may have done right
or wrong."
"I’ve long
sought the perfect online multiplayer games. This one has me running
through the house yelling 'Huzzah!'"
"Combining
aspects of an online rpg with traditional online war
games, Fall
of Rome . . . combines political
intrigue, high-level strategy,
and tactical combat all intertwined
with the ambitions and frailties
of the human mind."
"Participants
in the strategy games
of Fall
of Rome are tasked with
leading a tribe
of peoples to ultimate victory
over eleven other human opponents,
allowing for a great deal of intrigue,
combat, deal-making and back-stabbing
as online rpg players claw their way to victory,
or find themselves cast by the
wayside in defeat."
Rating: five stars out of
five!
"I rate the
GUI for Fall
of Rome as excellent,
and for intuitiveness it is, unquestionably,
one of the very best that I have
ever encountered in online multiplayer games."
"As to the strategy games
challenge factor, I would rate
Fall
of Rome as being superb."
"In my many years of playing online multiplayer games, I can honestly
say, without reservation, that
I have never encountered a company
that does any better job on the
customer service front, than the
folks at Enlightened
Age Entertainment."
Overall Rating:
9.6
"Multiple
award-winning game designer Rick
McDowell and team has seamlessly
melded historical accuracy and
the inherent complexity of
strategy games with an easy-to-use
GUI
and brilliant artwork to provide
a level of online multiplayer games
that will exceed every expectation."
"Competing
against eleven other players on
a map
containing villages,
towns,
cities
and areas containing fearsome
guardians
of legendary artifacts,
imposing our will beyond the borders
of our own kingdom
is the most challenging aspect
of this online rpg."
"In these strategy games, no single
strategy dominates the game.
Diverse play styles all have an
opportunity for success and encourage online rpg style."
"Fall
of Rome is a thrilling
and complex online multiplayer games sure to challenge the
most avid strategy games player. We need only
a web browser and a desire to
crush our competition. Five out
of five stars for online multiplayer games!"
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